Fred Landman

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Fred Landman (Hebrew: פרד לנדמן‎) is a professor of semantics at Tel Aviv University and the author of a number of books about linguistics. Prof. Landman is known for his influential work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics

A native of Holland, Landman immigrated to Israel in the 1980s. He is married to London-born linguist Susan Rothstein. The couple has one daughter and resides in Tel Aviv.

[edit] Books written

  • Events and Plurality: The Jerusalem Lectures
  • Indefinites and the Type of Sets
  • Structures for Semantics